the suspect had already been implicated in 2011 for identical facts

The man suspected of having killed a woman by pushing her on the tracks of an RER in Paris on Friday July 14 had already been implicated in 2011 for identical facts, learned franceinfo from a judicial source, confirming information from the Parisian .

>> Paris: a woman dies after being pushed onto the RER B tracks, the suspect placed in a psychiatric infirmary

This man had actually already pushed an individual on the subway tracks in October 2011. The victim, this time, had escaped unscathed but the suspect had been the subject of legal proceedings for intentional homicide. According to this judicial source, this procedure had been the subject of a dismissal on the grounds of criminal irresponsibility in February 2013.

The police custody of this man, arrested in Vitry-sur-Seine, in Val-de-Marne, was lifted on the evening of Friday July 14, in order to take him to the psychiatric infirmary, said Saturday July 15 the Paris prosecutor’s office. “The continuation of his police custody was considered incompatible with his state of health”, explained the prosecution. The investigations, entrusted to the 3rd district of the Parisian judicial police, are continuing.

The victim was hit by an oar

A woman in her fifties died after being pushed onto the tracks of the RER B in Paris, at the Cité universitaire station, in the 14th arrondissement, on the morning of Friday July 14. The woman first tried to get up but was finally struck by the train in question. The suspect told police “to be God” and that he had to “kill people and do good on Earth”, learned franceinfo from a source close to the investigation. He also indicated that he intended to attack next “to a weak person”.